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PHOTOCOURTESYOFROSSPALUBESKI CalFire,TehamaCountyFireandaSt.Elizabethambulanceweredispatchedaround4:30p.m.Sundaytoa reported traffic incident involving a bicyclist on State Route 99E near Patricie Street in the Antelope area of Red Bluff. The first arriving unit at scene reported one victim with major injuries and CPR in progress. The patient was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Nothing further was available Sunday evening. STATEROUTE99E BICYCLIST SUSTAINS MAJOR INJURIES IN TRAFFIC INCIDENT only the correct cow goes through first followed by whatever number is be- hind in sequential order — all within 60 seconds. The team with the most cows in the least time without an incorrect cow or number of cows wins. The event started as a way to raise funds for a fellow sorting sister who was battling brain can- cer and it was just a one- day event. It has grown in popularity to become a two-day event. In just the first three years, it has brought in about $40,000. The goal is helping ranching and agricul- tural families who have faced a major illness or injury. The 2015 proceeds will go to Jaime Gill, a Mill- ville resident who was in- jured in November 2015 when her horse bucked her off. Gill, who was assist- ing a neighbor in brand- ing cattle, had her face stepped on by her horse after she was thrown off. "It was such a shock to be offered this opportu- nity," Gill said. "I didn't feel I was qualified for it. It's a very kind deed they're doing." The accident left her with blindness in the left eye and a few broken teeth, but it could have been worse, she said. "I'm very fortunate to be here," Gill said. "There was no spine and no brain injury. It certainly could have been way worse." While there is a pos- sibility of another mi- nor surgery, Gill has not let the accident keep her from riding. "I've been riding and branding again, but I'm taking it slow and haven't team roped yet," Gill said. "I hope to get back to team roping. It's some- thing I want to get back to doing all the time. Ranching is a hard life- style to just give up when you're raised on it and I don't ever want to give it up." Part of what Gill en- joys about ranching is the people and the way they become like family, she said. "There are many peo- ple here today that don't know me and yet they come out to support me," Gill said. "The support is just amazing. The ranch- ing community is very family-oriented." The results from the Sort For Survival event are as follows, as pro- vided by organizers. Over the course of two days, 619 teams partici- pated. Open winners: Tony Louis and Anthony Xavier Century winners: Steve Wright and Phil Balmat #10 winners: Dick El- liot and Jessie Dillon #6 winners: Steve Fox and Joey Rocha #13 winners: Dick El- liott and Jaime Xavier Ranch Hand #11 win- ners: Tony Louis and partner Sadie Hawkins win- ners: Dick Elliot and Jes- sie Dillon Survival FROM PAGE 1 2012. Australia's city dwell- ers had to accept tough water restrictions as cattle collapsed and died in bar- ren fields, monstrous wild- fires killed 173 people, and scores of farms went under. But by the time the rains returned, Australia had fundamentally changed how it handles water, fol- lowing landmark reforms to more carefully mete out allocations and cutbacks. Today, Australia treats wa- ter as a commodity to be conserved and traded. The system also better mea- sures what water is avail- able, and efficiency pro- grams have cut average daily water use to 55 gal- lons, compared with 105 gallons per day for each Californian. The hard-earned lesson is that long droughts are here to stay, says drought- policy expert Linda Botter- ill of the University of Can- berra. "We can expect longer, deeper and more severe droughts in Australia, and I believe the same applies in the U.S.," Botterill says. "As a result, we need to de- velop strategies that are not knee-jerk responses, but that are planned risk-man- agement strategies." That's why California water officials routinely cite Australia's experience and invite Australian water ministers to come speak. It's also why Felicia Mar- cus, who runs California's Water Resources Control Board, can talk in minute detail about the stormwa- ter-capture system water- ing soccer fields in Perth. But Californians may find Australia's medicine tough to swallow. Austra- lians are accustomed to living in a dry land, ex- pect government interven- tion in a crisis and largely support making sacrifices for the common good. For much of their history, many Californians have enjoyed abundant water, or were able to divert enough of it to turn deserts green, and highly paid lawyers ensure that property rights remain paramount. "The outstanding feature of the California drought is the way in which it's been allowed to become incredi- bly serious, with — from an Australian perspective — an absolutely pathetic and nominal sort of response," said Daniel Connell, an en- vironmental policy expert at The Australian National University. "The main dif- ference between Califor- nia and Australia is they're dominated by a legalistic approach and dominated by rights, and we've got a much more public-policy approach." Australia hardly has all the answers. Some of its drought responses faced sharp criticism, and some experts believe Australia al- ready is losing some of its gains. Still, Americans suf- fering their own "Big Dry" may benefit from some comparisons: Tighteningthetap AUSTRALIA: During the Millennium Drought, all major cities imposed limits or bans on watering lawns and washing cars, and in- spectors fined people who broke the rules. The restric- tions, public-service cam- paigns and installation of water-saving appliances re- duced Australians' house- hold water use from 85 gal- lons per person per day in 2000 to 55 gallons today. CALIFORNIA: After some regions all but ig- nored calls for voluntary cutbacks, Brown's admin- istration mandated a state- wide 25 percent cut in wa- ter use by cities and towns, and ordered more farmers to stop pumping from riv- ers and streams. Marcus said the one piece of ad- vice that seemed universal in both Australia and Cali- fornia "was conserve, con- serve, conserve, as early as you can, because it's the cheapest, most economi- cal way to buy time" while tougher water-saving mea- sures are phased in. Cali- fornia still is struggling with enforcement, however. Watching the flow AUSTRALIA: Marcus says California should follow Australia's example in measuring and publicly declaring how water is used. Thousands of gauges across Australia measure rainfall, authorities in each state and territory measure surface water at stream gauging stations, and underground water is monitored through a complex process involving the drilling of bores and controlled pumping tests. Water data collection agencies report to the federal Bureau of Meteorology, which makes the data available online. CALIFORNIA: Califor- nia has been one of the most lax U.S. states in tracking water use, but the drought is changing this. Legislation enacted last year requires the state to gradually phase in mon- itoring, for the first time, of how much groundwater Californians are pump- ing. Meanwhile, roughly a quarter-million Califor- nia households and busi- nesses still lack water me- ters; state requirements to have them don't apply until 2025. The state has relied on an honor system, with rights holders self-report- ing what water they have withdrawn from rivers and streams every three years. Gov. Brown's budget pro- posed last week would re- quire rights holders to in- stall monitors and report water usage to the state annually. Whose water is it? AUSTRALIA: Too many water entitlements had been allocated for Aus- tralia's main river system, which winds thousands of miles across four states that produce a third of the nation's food. Overuse and drought so depleted the Murray-Darling Basin that by 2002, the mouth of the Murray had to be dredged to keep it flowing into the sea. Australia responded by capping entitlements, can- celing inactive licenses and buying back hundreds of billions of gallons from ir- rigators to restore the riv- ers and sell to other users when rain is plentiful. Wa- ter use is strictly metered to ensure license holders use only what they are al- located. Precise measure- ments also track the avail- ability of water, which af- fects its price as shares are bought and sold on a wa- ter trading market worth $1.2 billion a year in U.S. dollars. The amount of water represented in entitle- ments doled out to farms, industries and towns de- pends on what's in the river; in drought, it can dwindle to virtually noth- ing. This is where water trading becomes critical. License holders can buy or sell their entitlements to others, keeping agriculture afloat. A farmer of a thirsty crop like cotton might not profit when both water and cotton prices are low. But if an orchard grower in desperate need buys that water, the cotton farmer can live off the sale while the orchard owner reaps a profitable harvest. CALIFORNIA: Gov. Jerry Brown calls the state's system of divvy- ing up water rights, which dates to the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, "somewhat archaic." The largest state economy in the U.S. still follows the maxim "first in time, first in right," which gives overarching priority to nearly 4,000 so-called senior water rights holders who staked claims before 1914 or own acreage abut- ting a river or stream. In drought, authorities must completely deny water to most other claimants be- fore they touch the water of senior water-rights hold- ers. San Francisco, for ex- ample, has stronger water rights than many other cit- ies because in 1902, Mayor James Phelan hiked up the Sierra Nevada and tacked a water claim to an oak tree along the bank of the Tu- olumne River. "Revising the water- rights system is a thermo- nuclear issue in Califor- nia," John Laird, Califor- nia's secretary for natural resources, said last month. If the state's water short- ages go on long enough, however, at some point "al- most everything has to be on the table." Drought FROM PAGE 1 thus far. The organization is seeking alternative fun- draisers to help defray the cost of the remaining 12 skunks and anyone with ideas can send an email to bhughessrdc@gmail.com. Results from the race listed by category, name and time were as follows: Males under 18: Trey Hughes, 28:40; Males 20- 29: Joseph Hurton, 33:36; Males 50-59: Dr. Tim Frantz, 22:39; Males 60- 69: Jim Parks, 24.32; Fe- males 13-19: First Place: Sofia Frantz, 40.43; Sec- ond Place: Summer Frantz, 40.55; Females 20-29: First Place: Yese- nia Espinosa, 30.31; Sec- ond Place: Karli Hurton, 32.34; Third Place: Krista Alonzo, 32:39; Female 30- 39: Erika Diehl, 30:34; Fe- male 40-49: Tonya Tatro, 28.41; Female 50-59: Ju- lie Hablitzel, 26:28; Fe- male 70-79: Margo Frantz, 46:47. Stinker FROM PAGE 1 JULIE ZEEB - DAILY NEWS From le : brothers Kolton Lavelle, 7, and Gauge Lavelle, 6, of Cottonwood race for the finish line in the first Little Stinkers Fun Run/Walk. JULIE ZEEB - DAILY NEWS Brian Jacobs of Wilton works to separate a calf from the other nine during the 13open class Saturday at the Fourth annual Sort for Survival at the Tehama District Fairground. 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